We are proud to announce that, on June 18, 2018, Blue Ocean Analytics – Emergency Management for Tomorrow (BOA-EMT), completed its incubation phase. We are now initiating a soft launch with select partner agencies.

BOA-EMT is a start-up, women and minority-owned small business with a strong focus on resiliency within the Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance field.

We are based in Greater Boston, Massachusetts with a simultaneous presence Washington DC/Southeast US. With two founding partners and a senior advisor, BOA-EMT brings over 45 years of combined professional experience in the development and delivery of federally-funded hazard mitigation services, disaster recovery and resiliency, international development and analysis, as well as climate change-based threat assessment.

Latest Developments

We have developed a core architecture to deliver BOA-EMT content and capacity building-based trainings. Current content development and production includes:

Analysis of emerging threats in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance as well as Climate Disruption.

On October 18 2018, we will deliver a high profile presentation on emerging trends in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance to an audience including the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and NGOs/think tanks in Washington DC. This is in partnership with the Turkish American National Steering Committee.

Core Capabilities

BOA-EMT’s three core capabilities are:

Mitigation and Resiliency

Strategic Management Consulting through Capacity Building

Threat Assessment

Mitigation and Resiliency

BOA-EMT brings robust and nationally-recognized (U.S.) capabilities in the field of Hazard Mitigation and Resiliency. We have strong Subject Matter Expertise in FEMA-funded Mitigation funding streams including the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) program, and Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) programs. Our team has managed well over $200M in FEMA mitigation funding over the course of our careers and has attained recognition as SMEs and trainers, including serving as State instructors for Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA).

This includes full life cycle grants management–development, pre-approval, implementation and closeout; post-disaster intake operations in a field setting; Joint Field Office HMGP development operations, project scoping, as well as BCA of a large variety of project types including buyouts, elevations, reconstructions, stormwater management projects (culvert upsizes, detention ponds, etc), wind shutter and tornado saferooms, as well as power redundancy and early warning projects.

Strategic Management through Capacity Building

As a women and minority-owned small business, BOA-EMT provides strategic consulting to our clients and partners through an ethic of capacity building. We believe in helping our partners to internalize capabilities to manage multiple resilient recovery funding streams in a fast-changing environment. It is our commitment to help our clients be in a better position to manage a new project within their organization and stakeholders.

BOA-EMT also has tried and tested real-world experience in the integration of resilience into post-disaster recovery programming, where HMGP interfaces with Public Assistance, Individual Assistance, Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) and local and state-funding streams. This can be a complex political and pressurized environment to navigate for the public and private sector as well as disaster survivors. BOA-EMT brings authentic best practices and suggestions to our partners and clients, including the use of BCA as an objective common denominator.

Threat Assessment

BOA-EMT’s team also includes international experience operating in analytical roles in classified environments in Southwest Asia and the Middle East. We have worked for think tanks that cover Central Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Asia-Pacific. We have had analysis published by think tanks covering climate and security, and have appeared in Devex, Accuweather, Monday Developments Magazine, the Huffington Post, the Center for Climate and Security, and Foreign Policy Magazine. Our work on disaster analysis has even been referred to in international radio broadcasts. One of our hallmarks is integrating climate disruption intelligence into our analysis and products.

As we continue to develop this capability in our roll-out plan, please visit our multimedia library on our website for examples of our analytical writing, podcasts, and interview appearances.

Please contact us at boa.emt.directors@gmail.com if we can provide project scoping or implementation support, or to discuss potential collaboration.

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We Want to Support

Blue Ocean Analytics – Emergency Management for Tomorrow is a women and minority owned small business (pursuing certification), headquartered in Boston, MA, USA, with a presence in Washington DC and Hague Humanity Hub, Netherlands.

For complex threats posed to the Disaster Management and Humanitarian space, such as severe climate change, we assess, simulate, and integrate critical adjustments to full life cycle disaster plans. Our caseload includes the US, East Africa, North Africa, with growing partnerships anchored in the Hague, Netherlands.

Contact us for detailed information on how we can support you through this process.